• Years of unhealthy eating and poor sleep led Matthew Gilbert’s weight to climb, topping out at nearly 270 pounds. • After committing to a daily walk, he immediately saw benefits, including steady weight loss and improvements to his mood. • Eventually, he graduated to more intense workouts and started…

An interdisciplinary team of UCLA scientists has found that small cell neuroendocrine cancers from a range of tissues have a common molecular signature and share drug sensitivities with blood cancers. The discoveries could improve the diagnoses of these aggressive cancers and lead to the development of new treatments that build…

At first, Fredrik Winge’s weight gain didn’t bother him too much—he’d seen the number going up for some time, but he’d also been lifting pretty regularly. “I thought I was just getting stronger, not fat,” he says. “So I just ate what I wanted and didn’t really care. It was…

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), an inflammatory disease of the small airways in the lungs, affects 16 million Americans and is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, according to the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Identifying small airway disease in its earliest stages, when…